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Khomeini
/xmen/, Ruhollah (known as Ayatollah Khomeini) (1900-89), Iranian Shiite Muslim leader. After sixteen years in exile he returned to Iran in 1979 to lead an Islamic revolution which overthrew the shah. He established a fundamentalist Islamic republic, supported the seizure of the US embassy (1979) by Iranian students, and relentlessly pursued the Iran-Iraq War 1980-8. In 1989 he issued a fatwa condemning Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses, provoking criticism from the West

karakul

/karkl/ n. & a. Also caracul. M19. [Russ. karakul", f. the name of an oasis in Uzbekistan and of two lakes in Tadzhikistan, app. ult. f. Turkic.] A n. 1 (An animal of) a breed of sheep with a coarse wiry fleece. M19. 2 (Cloth or fur resembling) the glossy curled fleece of a young lamb of this breed. Also called Persian lamb. L19. B attrib. or as adj. Of or pertaining to the karakul or karakul. L19.